JOBIE L. KIRK of Ardmore, OK died January 27, 2019 at the age of 81. A licensed funeral director, embalmer and mortician, he began his apprenticeship with the Ragsdale Funeral Home. In 1974 he founded Frontier Funeral Home and the Dawson-Dillard Funeral Home in 1975. Kirk was sole proprietor of Kirk-Dawson-Dillard Funeral Home until 1988, at which time he founded Kirk Funeral Home. He graduated from the California College of Mortuary Science in 1961.